10Synonyms found for picket

Word Origin & History

picket 1690, "pointed stake (for defense against cavalry, etc.)," from Fr. piquet, from piquer "to pierce" (see pike (2)). Sense of "troops posted to watch for enemy" first recorded 1761; that of "striking workers stationed to prevent others from entering a factory" is from 1867. The verb in this sense also is from 1867.

Example Sentences for picket

Three markers surrounded by a white picket fence mark the resting place of the park's namesake.

Imagine that you are looking at a dog that is standing behind a picket fence.

With more or less difficulty he would be conducted to a picket rope outside and fastened there.

Imagine two people standing on opposite sides of a tall picket fence.

In fact, it may not have been a tree at all but a big wooden picket with clumps of rotting cherries stapled to it.

The field was filled with some two thousand dark-brown long-billed ducks, penned in by a white picket fence.

Levittown was the original suburbia: a place of identical detached single-family houses with white picket fences.

Not surprisingly the best teachers in the school weren't the ones on the picket lines.

The white picket fence was a metaphor for decent housing, life insurance, mortgages and college educations.